01655cam a22002297 4500001000600000003000500006005001700011008004100028100001700069245011800086260006600204490004100270500001900311520073500330530006101065538007201126538003601198710004201234830007601276856003701352856003601389w1847NBER20170817233427.0170817s1986 mau||||fs|||| 000 0 eng d1 aCard, David.14aThe Impact of Deregulation on the Employment and Wages of Airline Mechanicsh[electronic resource] /cDavid Card. aCambridge, Mass.bNational Bureau of Economic Researchc1986.1 aNBER working paper seriesvno. w1847 aFebruary 1986.3 aThis paper describes the effects of deregulation on negotiated wage rates and employment levels of aircraft mechanics in the scheduled airline industry. Firm-specific data for the incumbent trunk airlines show relatively small changes in real wage rates since deregulation,and only recent increases in interfirm wage differentials. Employment growth rates, on the other hand, have varied widely among the incumbents, and between the incumbent trunks and the local service and new-entrant airlines. The data suggest that deregulation resulted in a transfer of 5000-7000 maintenance jobs from the incumbent trunks to the smaller airlines. This shift in employment reduced mechanics' earnings in the industry by as much as 5 percent. aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers. aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files. aMode of access: World Wide Web.2 aNational Bureau of Economic Research. 0aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)vno. w1847.4 uhttp://www.nber.org/papers/w184741uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w1847